Burst

Beautiful book, bursting that magnificent question!
Flabby groupings slinking muscular world
fit this life, undulating those plump words.

Girl Story by Sunshine Shelle



Song Choice: The Knowledge by Janet Jackson

Liner Notes for This Groove: Clearly my will-power was low again this week, because I couldn't resist Magaly's prompt at Imaginary Words with Real Toads: Exquisite Corpse Poetry. Working with random words was fun, but it was trickier than it looks!

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  1. I'm starting to feel slightly deprived because in all my randomizing I didn't get the word "muscular". My goodness that words has... um, muscles.

    I love the excitement of the first line, that has to be a fantastic book--the freaking best--to evoke such glee. So wonderful that all those flabby groupings fit in a way that makes words move.

    Also, I might be enjoying this prompt a bit too much.

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    1. After I stood back and gazed upon what I had wrought, I had to laugh a little. I mean, usually when I write poetry I know what it is I want it to mean before I write, and with this one I really had to discover a meaning that helps the words hang well together. Some of my favorite bookish loves are imperfect things when looked at with an objective eye (heck a lot of my favorite, movies, TV shows, music, etc. are). But there's a thing in each of them that just touches me in the right spots, that I can't help but respond whole-heartedly to them.

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  2. I am literally swooning over that opening line!❤️ Beautifully done, Rommy!😍😍

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    1. Luck o' the randomizer LOL. Though as happy as I was with that arrangement, I was stumped for a bit with the rest of what I got.

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  3. "plump" is one of my favourite words to enunciate....followed by "plunge". 2 words that aren't used randomly enough for me :D XXX

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    1. It *is* a lot of fun to say. LOL this whole poem is kind of fun to read out loud. It's just so excited with itself.

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  4. Oh, I love this! The gods of randomness smiled on you for sure – combining with your own pizazz.

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    1. I was giggling when the first two words came out, but got progressively more perplexed as it spat the next grouping. LOL, I actually generated enough words for 5 lines, but once I had those three, it was just tough to really get the last set to make anything that suited what I had started, so I did wimp out a little.

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  5. Yours reads like you put it together without much effort. I couldn't stop smiling when I read comments at Imaginary Garden. So much fun, it seems. But like Sherry, I felt like I'd end up an Exquisite Corpse myself, if I dared to try...LOL!

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    1. Now, I'm going to send Try it! Try it! Try it! vibes your way. Hey, we all need to be an Exquisite Corpse every now and again. Then, we re-sprout (in a nurse-log, probably, lol).

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    2. Ha! Oh there was effort. Tricksie it was, but yes too much fun not to try. Join us...join us...

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  6. Plump words must undulate .... absolutely!!!!

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  7. Love the idea of books generating questions...

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  8. You found a nice picture to illustrate your work. Standing back also helped me, to chose a title.
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    1. Shelle's an amazing artist. I so love this piece.

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  9. As for me, I enjoy undulating the plumpest words!

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    1. How can anyone resist the urge to do so? :)

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  10. “Undulating those plump words”

    Love that line!

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